Author: Lucia

Egg & Eggplant returns Aug 12

I used to eat Egg & Eggplant sandwiches while driving the food truck from MIT back to JP. Looking back on it, that was a somewhat messy choice of a sandwich to eat one-handed while driving a food truck that bounced every time it hit a pothole, but it was so worth it. Crisp circles of eggplant with a crust that’s so thin that it shatters in your mouth, revealing an almost fruity, mild, custardy center with that hint of…

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How to make everything in the Zucchini Sandwich

We’ve been getting some requests from folks further afield who can’t get to Clover to try the Zucchini. So as promised, here’s a recipe sheet you can print out – it shows how to make the basil mayo, the glazed fried tofu, and the corn-zucchini-shiso salad. Enjoy! 

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The wait for blueberries is over!

It’s so fun to see seasonal drinks back on the menu. Right now blueberries are at their peak. We’re getting them from Harlow’s Sugarhouse in Vermont, a 100-year-old farm that taps maple in the spring and grows blueberries in the summer. We’re making them into blueberry lemonade, blueberry soda, and blueberry lemon rosemary spritzes. Here’s Kiernan’s son Charlie waiting…

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Zucchini Sandwich returning on Weds 7/22

As we’ve continued our re-opening phase, we’re starting to bring more and more seasonal produce onto the menu. The Zucchini Sandwich is one of my favorites we do all year. There’s a thick slice of glazed tofu from Heiwa in Maine. Basil mayo. Fresh raw zucchini that we cut into half-moons. Snappingly fresh corn. And shiso, which is a Japanese herb that tastes like a cross between mint and basil, with slight licorice-y notes. It’s sweet/salty/fresh and super addictive. Fun fact: this is the first sandwich where…

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Your pita supports Northeast grains

Matt, who leads up food sourcing, let us know that we got our first order of Coastal Queen flour last week. The packaging is cool – it shows how many acres of local grain you’re supporting by buying each bag. Coastal Queen is a new line from Ground Up Grain, which evolved from a really cool organization called Valley Malt. If you’ve been reading this blog for years, you might remember us going out to visit Andrea out in Western Mass. She was one of the early pioneers in…

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Spring Romesco Sandwich v2

Creamy red pepper romesco is the star of the newest Clover sandwich, which has been in-testing at CloverHSQ (1326 Mass Ave) and CloverHSC (1 Oxford St) the past few weeks. Lots of people loved it; lots of people have eaten it more than once; but others said it lacked a bit of crunch and heft. So we’re trying out a new version starting today at lunch – come through and let us know what you think by voting on our sticker banner.

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Mexicali sandwich emerges after 6 years

Jenny created the Mexicali Mushroom in late February 2020. We tested it at our Kendall location and everyone loved it! But then Covid hit, and it never made it to primetime. A few months ago we were talking about what mushroom sandwich could possibly be worthy to replace the Mushroom Popper when it goes off the menu for a bit. I think Chris was the one who recalled the Mexicali Mushroom. It has a chipotle mayo, crimini mushrooms fried in the style of a fish taco, a juicy cabbage slaw, and a cilantro garlic pesto/salsa creation…

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There’s even a sticker on the ceiling!

Every time we test out a menu item, we ask you all to vote on whether it deserves a place on the menu using stickers placed on a banner – high up if you liked it, low down if not. We were testing the Korean Fried Chicken at Harvard Science Center, and when asked how the testing was going, Brendan (GM) said, “There’s even a sticker on the ceiling.” “A STICKER ON THE CEILING?” I exclaimed. And it was true. Here’s the photo proof

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“Kid legend in our home” – meet the Maple Box

March is a magical, delicious, sticky, snowy, sunny time of year. Even though a lot of produce isn’t in season yet, we get maple sugaring season, when nighttime temperatures drop below freezing, but the days begin to feel balmy. That’s when the sap begins to run and the boiling-down begins. Family-run Sugar Shacks open their wooden doors and set out their checkered tablecloths, and we launch our Maple Box.

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The Carrot Habanero Lime Sandwich is back

Just in time for your New Year’s Resolution to eat more carrots! Spicy, sweet, and limey, it’s the only Clover sandwich to have a love letter written to it (by an avowed carnivore no less!) Paul dreamed up the Carrot Sandwich back in 2017: carrots two ways (habanero carrot hot sauce, roasted carrots), creamy feta sauce, cabbage lime slaw, and fried farro for crunch). It went through 3 versions before getting to the one you love today.

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